{"id":75,"date":"2009-12-04T18:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-12-04T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:22:19","slug":"building-the-next-generation-residental-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Building the next generation residental internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan is currently stuck in a backwater of internet access.  There are parts that just managed to get basic telephone service in recent months (eg: <a href=\"http:\/\/telephonyonline.com\/mag\/telecom_dont_mad_ilec\/\">Don&#8217;t Get Mad, Get ILEC<\/a>) and the local consumers are stuck. If there is any area of sparse population you pass, that&#8217;s likely the firewall for real internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Currently AT&amp;T, Comcast and other providers are unwilling to step-up and invest in the infrastructure to capture these consumers.  Local activities have been started, such as municipal\/county and other wireless projects, but the unlicensed bands these utilize are blocked by trees and their leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the current generation of technology installed is going to require real effort on the part of consumers.  Would you be willing to use a shovel to save costs? In norway you can get fiber to your home, and save $400 in installation fees by digging yourself [<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/05\/norwegian-isp-dig-your-own-fiber-trench-save-400.ars\">Dig your own trench, save $400<\/a>]. With spools of fiber cheap (eg: 2km fiber for $150) this means the largest part of the expense is conduit and digging.  Even the equipment runs around $200 for each end.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in Washtenaw County and interested in solving this divide, I&#8217;m interested in hearing from you.  If you are elsewhere in Michigan, please tell about what you&#8217;ve done to solve these challenges.  It&#8217;s time to create a solution instead of living with 1970&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan is currently stuck in a backwater of internet access. There are parts that just managed to get basic telephone service in recent months (eg: Don&#8217;t Get Mad, Get ILEC) and the local consumers are stuck. If there is any area of sparse population you pass, that&#8217;s likely the firewall for real internet access. Currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,10,9,11,15,28,17,12,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}